SB 12.4.22

Srimad-Bhagavatam, Twelfth Canto, Chapter 4: The Four Categories of Universal Annihilation

SB 12.4.21

SB 12.4.23

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 22

layaḥ prākṛtiko hy eṣa
puruṣāvyaktayor yadā
śaktayaḥ sampralīyante
vivaśāḥ kāla-vidrutāḥ

SYNONYMS

layaḥ—the annihilation; prākṛtikaḥ—of the material elements; hi—indeed; eṣaḥ—this; puruṣa—of the Supreme Lord; avyaktayoḥ—and of His material nature in its unmanifest form; yadā—when; śaktayaḥ—the energies; sampralīyante—merge totally; vivaśāḥ—helpless; kāla—by time; vidrutāḥ—disarrayed.

TRANSLATION

This is the annihilation called prākṛtika, during which the energies belonging to the Supreme Person and His unmanifest material nature, disassembled by the force of time, are deprived of their potencies and merge together totally.